geordiegirl2

In the hospital I work at in the US patients are woken between 3-4am to have labs drawn so there ready for the docs when they round in the morning, not exactly patient centred care! so I think most of them would rather get be bathed then to then sett...

i agree nurses here really don't know any better and think of back injury is part of the job. there also seems to be a mind set that you have to give 'yourself' to be a good nurse which translates into you shouldn't care about yourself only the patie...

My understanding when I left the NHS in 2004 was that all jobs were open to job share and not strictly 18.75. I believe if you get the right combination job share is a great option and the literature suggests you get a much better service with two nu...

I did talk to her initially about it and since, given that its so far away don't think she's that concerned yet but I'm sure as the time gets closer she'll wonder whats going on. I'll get the name of the agency and let you know.

I worked as a Health Visitor and came here three years ago with OGP they stipulated I had to get some more recent hospital experience after I passed the NCLEX,( I had done surgery for a lot of years before going into health visiting) I did a very sm...

My manager has just interviewed international nurses with another company to OGP and they told her retrogression would be over April/ May but not to expect the nurses until feb 2008, to allw for the whole process to be complete, have to be honest and...

i'm glad its sorted its frightening how little knowledge some of these people have.

its the sales tax you can claim as apposed to the actual furniture costs but it adds up if you've bought a lot of big items, i would call and ask about it too.

you can claim all sales tax but obviously its only worth it on bigger items so all three years we've filed we claimed sales tax on our big purchases which has mainly been furniture. this year she asked us about our medical and dental bills and withou...

we went to h&r block and when was the telephone tax backdated to?

i know what you mean about taxes, we just did ours yesterday and like you its varied a lot, the first year as we hadn't worked a lot we got a substantial rebate, much more than we'd paid, last year we owed and this year we're getting a little back. f...

Apologies if every one already knows this but it came as a suprise to me and quite by chance. I had my bag stolen from my car last night, along with my life!!!!!! anyway when looking to report my greencard stolen I found on the website that if childr...

Not a chance we were travellers so not subject to any of that, I did get an extra dollar an hour each year I was with OGP.

At our hospital there was also two bonus checks, one if you recieved an outstanding evaluation and a small incentive bonus based on how the hospital had performed.

Thanks both of you, today has been a long day as its bad enough stopping cards etc but I had me nursing license, greencard, driving license and cpr licence in my purse too and with all this identity fraud here its a bit of a worry really. The telepho...

my youngest child has a renal condition and we were told if he became sick in the first 6 months they would have to asess their liability, knowing the syatem a bit better now i know they would have refused and we were very lucky he has been well, the...

It certainly isn't the best and it was more expensive than we pay now but the only positive in it for me was that we were covered as soon as I started work, which I know might not be the case now. I know there are nurses who have found better deals t...

Your right to point that out my health benefits are through my husbands work, though he's employed by the same hospital as I am its much better for us that he takes the benefits as even if I were core staff nurses who dont take benefits get an additi...

I agree its wrong to convert pounds to dollars but its hard not to at least initially. We I think are probably much better off here but I really miss the protection of sick pay and vacation pay not tied to it. I feel like we had a really good life at...

I'm here just really busy, works ok seems like i get a different proposal of at a job within the hospital each day, working mon -fri means i'm not on here much anymore.

welcome to tucson, where are you living, working etc?

Me too,

My hope is Claire here in AZ

I'm off from today(thurs) until the 30th so thats not bad working new years eve until 7pm then off. On xmas day we've invited to friends but we probably won't go until after lunch given that i've had all my fav foods shipped in!!!!!! Boxing day we ha...